Milton S. Elliott
Many of the veterans of the Civil War are still living in Fayette county, Ohio, and practically all are now passed the allotted age of three score and ten. One of these gallant old soldiers is Milton S. Elliott, the owner of three hundred acres of valuable land in Wayne township and the present trustee of his township. He is a self-made man, having started in life with nothing and has accumulated a comfortable estate by the exercise of good management and close application to his business interests.
Milton S. Elliott, the son of William W. and Sarah W. (King) Elliott, was born January 7, 1844, near Newark. Ohio. His father was bom in Baltimore, Marvland, and was reared to manhood in that city. He learned the carpenter trade and after his marriage went to Licking county, Ohio, where he followed his trade, later locating in Allen county, Indiana, and settling in Fayette county, Ohio, in 1856. Nine children were born to William W. Elliott and wife. Milton S., John. W. T., George J., James W., Joseph H., Hugh S.. Marion F. and Edgar (deceased).
The education of Milton S. Elliott was received in the schools of Licking county, Ohio, Allen county. Indiana, and completed in Fayette county, Ohio. He was about twelve years of age when his father permanently located in Fayette county and his subsequent career has been spent in this county. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in Battery A, Ohio Heavy Artillery, at Bloomingburg, and served for a total of twenty-six months before being mustered out of the service. He was in the Army of the Cumberland and saw hard fighting in the states of Tennessee. Kentucky and Georgia.
Immediately after the close of the war he returned to Fayette county and began working out by the month, saving his monev in order to buy a farm of his own. After his marriage, in 1870, he bought his first farm of thirty-three acres and to this he has gradually added until he now owns three hundred acres of fine land in Wayne township. He has engaged in general farming, dividing his attention between the raising of crops and the breeding of live stock. He has kept his farm in a high state of productivity by scientific crop rotation and has thus secured the maximum results from his efforts.
Mr. Elliott was married September 6, 1870, to Ursula Grubb. the daughter of Jacob and Susan (Wentworth) Grubb. To this union there have been born five children. Hugh E., Jacob W., Nettie E., Robert W. and Leigh B. Hugh E. married Mary Moore and has two children, Leverne and Levern. Jacob W. married Helen Paul. Nettie E. is the wife of Frank Carr and has one son, Delbert. Robert W. married Desse Mays and has one son, Paul. Leigh B. married Grace McVicker and has one daughter. Virginia Leigh.
Politically, Mr. Elliott is a Republican and has always been active in local political matters. His worth as a citizen is shown bv the fact that his party nominated him for the office of township trustee and subsequently elected him to this responsible position. He is filling this office to the entire satisfaction of the citizens of the township irrespective of their political affiliations. Fraternally. Mr. Elliott is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for the past thirty-six years and has always been a liberal supporter of his favorite denomination.
From History of Fayette County Ohio - Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frank M. Allen (1914, R. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.)